Thursday, October 29, 2015

Cutty Sark

Cutty Sark
Connecticut
Connection
Wimbledon
La Katrina
Chac Mol
Tiger Woods

Psalm 37:2
"For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb." 

"And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves." ~~~Walt Whitman: Song of Myself 6 l.102

 “The smallest sprout shows there is really no death;”~~~Walt Whitman: 14 Song of Myself 6, l.118



The ship, built at Scott and Linton's Dumbarton shipyards in 1869, was designed to sail to China for tea but when the Suez Canal was opened the route was more suited to steamships. The 'Cutty Sark' was then modified for use in the Australian wool trade.






 The Wimbledon Championships




Chac Mol, a mayan god, Chitchen Itza, Mexico





  Each year, the winner of The Masters is presented with the famous "Green Jacket." Slipping on the green jacket is the golden moment for many winners of the tournament. But how did a green jacket come to be such a big deal? What is the story behind the vaunted Green Jacket?
 But the Green Jacket presented to the Masters champion is one beautiful piece of outerwear. The tradition of the Green Jacket at Augusta National Golf Club dates to 1937.





 
Saybrook Breakwater Lighthouse, Connecticut.






La Katrina

José Emilio Pacheco

La obra narrativa de José Emilio está representada por tres libros de cuentos (La sangre de Medusa de 1958, El viento distante y otros relatos de 1963, El principio del placer de 1972); por dos novelas (Morirás lejos de 1967 y Las batallas en el desierto 1981) y por múltiples crónicas escritas en los suplementos y revistas en los que participó. Con respecto a sus cuentos, la autora Bárbara Bockus Aponte señala su carácter alusivo más que directo, su tendencia a la brevedad, y la escasez del detalle descriptivo o anecdótico11 . En sus cuentos aparece de manera constante el tema del paso del tiempo y de la repetición de la historia; también son usuales los universos de la infancia y de lo fantástico. Los textos fantásticos se distinguen “porque en un universo ficticio cognoscible y manipulable para los personajes”12 ocurre un hecho insólito que no es posible explicar. En el cuento perteneciente al libro El principio del placer, “Tenga para que se entretenga” encontramos a una madre (Olga) y a su hijo (Rafael) en el Bosque de Chapultepec, en el año 1943: de pronto, sucede lo insólito;
Rafael se entretenía en obstaculizar con una ramita el paso de un caracol. En ese instante se abrió un rectángulo de madera oculto bajo la hierba rala del cerro y apareció un hombre […] salió del subterráneo, fue hacia Olga, le tendió un periódico doblado y una rosa con un alfiler: -Tenga para que se entretenga. Tenga para que se la prenda.
El origen del personaje misterioso y sus razones para presentarse ante la mujer y el niño no son explicadas de manera definitiva por ninguna ley (ni la del mundo ficticio en que habitan los personajes, ni mediante las leyes de un universo maravilloso) La novela Morirás lejos “recrea la persecución de siglos que han sufrido los judíos hasta el Holocausto”8 , y en Las batallas en el desierto se encuentran los temas, abordados por Pacheco en varios de sus textos, de la destrucción de la ciudad y la infancia como un pasado en que el personaje descubre tanto el amor como el desengaño


Chess: "Cutty Sark" "Connecticut" "Connection" "Wimbledon " "Katrina" "Chac Mol" "Tiger Woods"

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Mosquitia

Mosquitia
Azul
Aguacate
Blue Lagoon
Bluefields
Avocado
Nicaragua

Psalm50:11
"I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine."







The Blue Lagoon





 
Morgan's Rock Hacienda and Ecolodge, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua




Aguacate






Avocados







 
Kaieteur Falls, Guyana, Amzonian jungle




Miss Bluefields Scharllette Alexandra Allen Moses






Mosquitia


Mosquitia











 Douglas Preston is an American writer and journalist who has published twenty-six books, both fiction and nonfiction, including over a dozen New York Times bestsellers. Perhaps most popularly known for his thrillers, Douglas Preston has interested audience with a wide range of topics and publications. In the year 2000, Preston moved with his family to Florence, Italy, to write a murder mystery set in Tuscany. Instead of writing the novel, however, he became fascinated by the story of a serial killer named il Mostro di Firenze, the Monster of Florence. He teamed up with an Italian journalist, Mario Spezi, who was an expert on the case. In 2008 they published a nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, which was a huge bestseller, spending four months on the New York Times list. The book won numerous journalism awards in both Italy and the United States. It is currently under development as a film, starring George Clooney, who will play the part of Preston. He has published a number of solo novels, including Tyrannosaur Canyon, Blasphemy, and Impact. Together with Lincoln Child, he is the creator of the the Pendergast series including such popular titles as: The Cabinet of Curiosities, Cold Vengeance, and White Fire. His most recent suspense novels are Blue Labyrinth, and The Kraken Project. Before becoming a full-time author, Preston was an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and taught writing at Princeton University. He has also continued an active career in journalism, contributing to such magazines as the New Yorker, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Harper’s and the Atlantic. He lives with his wife in Maine and New Mexico.




Chess: "Mosquitia" "Azul" "Blue Lagoon" "Bluefields" "Nicaragua" "aguacate" "avocado"

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Red Cross

Cruz Roja
Red Cross
Georgia
Georgetown
Bluefields
The Knight
St. George 
Chivalry



Psalm50:14
"Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:"


"A gentle Knight was pricking on the plain,"~~~Spenser: The Faerie Queene









Chivalry: the Knight
"A gentle Knight was pricking on the plain,"~~~Spenser: The Faerie Queene




 
St. George and the Dragon:



Donatello, St. George, c. 1410-1415, marble
Donatello carved his statue of St. George for the guild of armorers and swordmakers in Florence. In Donatello’s work, St. George was carved with a confident posture.  He stands tall with his shield in front of him that looks as if could rotate on its small base which touches the ground.  This implies, at the very least, a sense of readiness on the part of the saint to quickly confront enemies coming from different directions.


The Old Stone House in Georgetown, built 1765, is one of the oldest buildings in Washington, D.C.


Chess: "Cruz Roja" "Red Cross""Georgia" "Georgetown" "Bluefields" "St. George" "The Knight" "Chivalry"

Friday, October 23, 2015

Mast

Djed
Mast
Mástil
Mist
Mistery
Cybernetics

Gen.2:6
"But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."

The sacred symbol of the Djed pillar

Hieroglyphics play an important role in understanding ancient Egyptian culture. One of the most commonly found and mysterious hieroglyphic symbols is known as the djed symbol. With the appearance of a pillar and three or more cross bars, there have been several theories as to the meaning of this enigmatic symbol, and what it represented to the ancient Egyptians who used it so frequently.
The djed symbol has the appearance of a vertical shaft or pillar. It usually had four horizontal bars near the top, with a series of vertical lines between each bar. It also had four bands around the neck of the shaft, beneath the first of the horizontal bars. Sometimes it is topped with a capital.
 Many believe the djed is a symbol of the god Osiris, specifically, his spine. According to Egyptian mythology, Osiris was the god of the afterlife. While visiting Set, the god of disorder, desert, storms, and violence, Osiris was tricked into climbing into a coffin that was built exactly to his size. He was quickly suffocated, and the coffin was cast into the Nile. Eventually, the coffin washed up on the shores of Byblos, in Syria. A sacred tree grew rapidly around the coffin, encasing the coffin within its trunk. The king of the land, unaware of the presence of the coffin, was in awe of the tree’s quick growth, and he ordered it cut down to become a pillar in his palace. All the while, Osiris’ wife Isis had been searching for him. She came to learn that his body was contained inside the pillar. She became close with the king and queen, and when they granted her a boon, she requested the pillar. Upon being granted the pillar, she removed Osiris’ body, and consecrated the pillar. It has since been called the pillar of the djed.



he sun disk of the god Ra is raised into the sky by an ankh-sign (signifying life) and a djed-pillar (signifying stability and the god Osiris) while adored by Isis, Nephthys, and baboons. The motif symbolizes rebirth and the sunrise. (Wikimedia)
According to others, the djed is a fertility pillar made from or surrounded by reeds, trees, or sheaves. As Egypt was a treeless land, this may represent the importance of the trees that were imported from Syria. This also ties in with the story of Osiris, where his body was encased within the trunk of a tree. Other accounts associate the djed with the falcon god of the Memphite necropolis, Seker, then with the Memphite patron god of craftsmen Ptah. Ptah is sometimes referred to as “the noble djed.” The djed symbol is also sometimes viewed as a pillar supporting the sky. In a palace, the pillars may surround a window, and when viewed from the right angle, it appears that the pillars are supporting the sky.

The djed symbol is also used in a ceremony called “raising the djed.” This ceremony is meant to represent Osiris’ triumph over Set. During the ceremony, the pharaoh uses ropes to raise a pillar, with the assistance of priests. This coincided with the time of year when the agricultural year began and fields were sown. This was just one part of a 17-day holiday of festivals dedicated to Osiris. Overall, the raising the djed ceremony represented both the resurrection of Osiris, and the strength and stability of the monarch.
 

Raising the Djed pillar, Temple of Seti I, Abydos, Egypt (Wikimedia)
The djed has also been used as an amulet, placed near the spines of mummified bodies, and the image painted on their coffin. The amulet was intended to allow the deceased to live eternally, and to ensure their resurrection. The Egyptian Book of the Dead contains a spell that would be spoken as the amulet was placed on the mummy, in hopes that it would allow the deceased to sit up and regain use of their spine. In addition, it was often seen in hieroglyphic inscriptions and even as part of architectural structures. Its ubiquitous appearance gives the impression that this symbol was both important and sacred in ancient Egyptian belief systems.












Cybernetics: Wilhelm and Kathy




Mastil



Chess: "Djed" "Mast" "Mástil" "Mist" "Mistery" "Cybernetics"



Norbert Wiener defined cybernetics in 1948 as "the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine."[2] The word cybernetics comes from Greek κυβερνητική (kybernetike), meaning "governance", i.e., all that are pertinent to κυβερνάω (kybernao), the latter meaning "to steer, navigate or govern", hence κυβέρνησις (kybernesis), meaning "government", is the government while κυβερνήτης (kybernetes) is the governor or the captain. Contemporary cybernetics began as an interdisciplinary study connecting the fields of control systems, electrical network theory, mechanical engineering, logic modeling, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology, and psychology in the 1940s, often attributed to the Macy Conferences. During the second half of the 20th century cybernetics evolved in ways that distinguish first-order cybernetics (about observed systems) from second-order cybernetics (about observing systems).[3] More recently there is talk about a third-order cybernetics (doing in ways that embraces first and second-order).[4]
Fields of study which have influenced or been influenced by cybernetics include game theory, system theory (a mathematical counterpart to cybernetics), perceptual control theory, sociology, psychology (especially neuropsychology, behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology), philosophy, architecture, and organizational theory.[5]

The term cybernetics stems from κυβερνήτης (kybernētēs) "steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder". As with the ancient Greek pilot, independence of thought is important in cybernetics.[8] Cybernetics is a broad field of study, but the essential goal of cybernetics is to understand and define the functions and processes of systems that have goals and that participate in circular, causal chains that move from action to sensing to comparison with desired goal, and again to action. Studies in cybernetics provide a means for examining the design and function of any system, including social systems such as business management and organizational learning, including for the purpose of making them more efficient and effective.

 
Simple feedback model. AB < 0 for negative feedback.

French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère first coined the word "cybernetique" in his 1834 essay Essai sur la philosophie des sciences to describe the science of civil government.[9]
Cybernetics was borrowed by Norbert Wiener, in his book "Cybernetics", to define the study of control and communication in the animal and the machine.[10] Stafford Beer called it the science of effective organization and Gordon Pask called it "the art of defensible metaphors" (emphasizing its constructivist epistemology) though he later extended it to include information flows "in all media" from stars to brains. It includes the study of feedback, black boxes and derived concepts such as communication and control in living organisms, machines and organizations including self-organization. Its focus is how anything (digital, mechanical or biological) processes information, reacts to information, and changes or can be changed to better accomplish the first two tasks.[11] A more philosophical definition, suggested in 1956 by Louis Couffignal, one of the pioneers of cybernetics, characterizes cybernetics as "the art of ensuring the efficacy of action."[12] The most recent definition has been proposed by Louis Kauffman, President of the American Society for Cybernetics, "Cybernetics is the study of systems and processes that interact with themselves and produce themselves from themselves."[13]

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Joy

Joy
Felicidad
Hat
Chapeau
Manhattan
Everest 
Marble
Ohio

Psalm 50:2
"Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined."



“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”John Keats (1795–1821)

A THING of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.







 
Chapeau fedora feutre homme Wardell Bailey




Mount Everest lit up with sunshine at the peak. This is the a view of the north face




View of Lower Manhattan at sunset, from Jersey City, New Jersey. One World Trade Center, at center, is the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere.



"the jollity of aged men has much in common with the mirth of  children"~~~Hawthorne







Marbles

Chess: "Joy" "Felicidad" "Hat" "Chapeau" "Manhattan" "Everest" "Marble" "Ohio"

Monday, October 19, 2015

Space Needle

Seattle
Space Needle
Skyhawk
Courtyard
Melting Pot 
Katy Perry
Ai

Psalm 50:7
"Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God."

Josh.7:4
"So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai."

Josh.8:1
"And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:"



"This effect is produced by melting...the shadows in a ground still darker."~~~Sir Joshua Reynolds




A U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk of VA-164, from theUSS Oriskany, en route to attack a target in North Vietnam during November 1967.







 Low Hanging Clouds in Seattle - Beautiful & Haunting!! - Space Needle - Seattle, Washington




PERRY TICA





Katy Perry







Katy Perry







Australian War Memorial courtyard




Chess: "Seattle" "Space Needle" "Skyhawk" "Courtyard" "Melting Pot  " "Katy Perry" "Ai"

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Oak

Oak
Oasis
Oakland
A-O
Obelisk
Ohio 
Room

Psalm50:1
[[A Psalm of Asaph.]] The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.



“I am lost in love with this room…it’s an oasis of hiding”~~~J. P. Donleavy



Langley Country Park, Buckinghamshire, England; photo by .Kevin Day





Oasis Camels at the Archei Oasis - The Guelta d'Archei is probably the most famous guelta in the Sahara. It is located in the Ennedi Plateau, in north-eastern Chad, south-east of the town of Fada.





Large master bedroom in luxury Southwest home. Southwest design scheme throughout with exposed wood beams, adobe appearance, wood floors and arched windows with iron inlay.


"Duermen del otro lado de las puertas 
Aquéllos que por obra de los sueños 
Son en la sombra visionarios dueños 
Del vasto ayer y de las cosas muertas."

~~~ Jorge Luis Borges: Adrogué.





Obélisque de Ramsès II, pharaon de la XIXe dynastie, sous le Nouvel Empire - Temple de Louxor, Égypte.





Place de la Concorde, Paris. In the center, the grand obelisk that Napoleon brought back from his Egyptian campaign. Its twin, known as "Cleopatra's Needle" can be found in New York's Central Park.



Chess: "Oak" "Oasis" "Oakland" "A-O" "Obelisk" "Ohio" Room"

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Remus

Remus
Hungary 
Werewolf
John Keats
Charles Lamb
Lana del Rey 

Rom.1:1
"Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,"



"Ed una lupa, che di tutte brame
 sembiava carca ne la sua magrezza,
 e molte genti fé già viver grame,"
 
And a she-wolf, that with all hungerings
Seemed to be laden in her meagreness,
And many folk has caused to live forlorn! 
 
y una loba que por su flacura
 cargada estaba de todas las hambres,
 y ya de mucha gente entristecido había la vida. 
 ~~~Dante
 
 








Classic Rack of Lamb 





Lana Del Rey




Chess: "Remus" "Hungary""John Keats" "Charles Lamb" "Lana del Rey""Werewolf"